{"id":1327,"date":"2014-10-07T09:18:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2014-10-07T09:18:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:18:14","slug":"book-review-keeper-by-greg-rucka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1327","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  Keeper by Greg Rucka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/110145.Keeper\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1320495933m\/110145.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Keeper\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/110145.Keeper\">Keeper<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/18327.Greg_Rucka\">Greg Rucka<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1074128319\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am reading the work of Greg Rucka backwards, having started with his Queen and Country series, &#8220;Alpha&#8221; (the first book in his new Jad Bell series) and now back to his initial series with Atticus Kodiak in &#8220;Keeper.&#8221; As I&#8217;ve mentioned in a previous review, the author is rapidly becoming my favorite thriller genre author, with his fast-paced and interesting plots and low amounts of graphic violence. &#8220;Keeper&#8221; is the debut of Atticus Kodiak, who is a private bodyguard, and his attempts to keep safe an abortion doctor who is the target of death threats by radical pro-life proponents. The topic is incendiary, but Rucka keeps the politicizing to a minimum and focuses instead on the difficulty of keeping someone safe when people are willing to sacrifice their lives to harm that person. (This is the Secret Service&#8217;s worst nightmare, too.)<br \/>\nThe book is not as polished as some of the author&#8217;s later efforts, but all the hallmarks of his writing are there&#8211;well drawn secondary characters, terse but eloquent descriptions, interesting plot, and well-paced action. There are also deftly written scenes with the daughter of the target, who has Down&#8217;s Syndrome.<br \/>\nAll in all, Greg Rucka continues to be my favorite author in this genre, and I will certainly be reading &#8220;Finder,&#8221; the next book in the series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/1396812-may\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeper by Greg Rucka My rating: 4 of 5 stars I am reading the work of Greg Rucka backwards, having started with his Queen and Country series, &#8220;Alpha&#8221; (the first book in his new Jad Bell series) and now back to his initial series with Atticus Kodiak in &#8220;Keeper.&#8221; As I&#8217;ve mentioned in a previous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[336,149,241,119],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-greg-rucka","tag-keeper","tag-thrillers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-lp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}